(MooGal) 

Quote -   Just because I can't think of a reason to connect displacement to reflection doesn't mean there isn't a time when someone would want that.

     Exactly.    Many innovations were first done as "mis-use" of some Poser feature - MATposes, for example.

     As soon as P8 with its IDL came out, I was "mis-using" its IDL response to ambient, to make glowing neon for the jukebox and building signage of TinkerBell's Drive-In Cafe' and the paper lanterns of the elven antediluvian gnarly mulberry tree.

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     I also mis-use the anisotropic specular node to get sparkles on water and snowfields, and to make luminous sparkles in pixie dust trails.

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     Apparently, my unseen IDL emitters mis-use the "[ ] visible in camera" property, since I've been told that was intended to allow for cameras to see through walls where camera placement was difficult.

     And I suppose we could include driving animated displacement (rippling water, e.g.) with the movie node.

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     I like experimenting with unintended uses for Poser features.  Often, first attempts crash and burn.  That's OK.  It's this experimentation that I find to be fun in Poser. :)

Poser 12, in feet.  

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